“We would catch eyes every now and then.” When her plane landed back in New York the next day, she already had a message from him.

They exchanged flirtatious banter over text for a week or so before he asked her to go out with him on Monday, September 25. The night would end with Grace in an Uber home, in tears, messaging her friends about how Ansari behaved.

’ and I go, ‘Oh, yeah, sure,’ and he goes, ‘Well, if I poured you another glass of wine now, would it count as our second date? “I said I don’t want to feel forced because then I’ll hate you, and I’d rather not hate you,” she said.

“When the waiter came over he quickly asked for the check and he said like, ‘Let’s get off this boat.’” She recalls there was still wine in her glass and more left in the bottle he ordered. “Like, he got the check and then it was bada-boom, bada-bing, we’re out of there.” They walked the two blocks back to his apartment building, an exclusive address on Tri Be Ca’s Franklin Street, where Taylor Swift has a place too.

I don’t think that was noticed at all, or if it was, it was ignored.” Ansari wanted to have sex.

She said she remembers him asking again and again, “Where do you want me to fuck you? She says she found the question tough to answer because she says she didn’t want to fuck him at all.

“Most of my discomfort was expressed in me pulling away and mumbling.

I know that my hand stopped moving at some points,” she said.

Refinery29 called him “a certified woke bae.” In the second season of “Master of None”, one episode introduces a macho TV food guy called Chef Jeff, who gives Ansari’s character Dev a huge career opportunity before being accused of sexually inappropriate conduct by a bunch of women.

Discussing the storyline, Ansari said he wanted to examine what happens when much-loved characters are revealed to be creeps, making all those around them who don’t speak out complicit.

When Ansari told her he was going to grab a condom within minutes of their first kiss, Grace voiced her hesitation explicitly. Everything was pretty much touched and done within ten minutes of hooking up, except for actual sex.” She says Ansari began making a move on her that he repeated during their encounter.